Tugboat services, harbor operation · Texas

Kirby Offshore Marine West

Houston, TX · ~190 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kirby Offshore Marine West runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Tugboat services, harbor operation workplace, earning a grade B.

Kirby Offshore Marine West: 3.5 TCR = 78% of Tugboat services, harbor operation BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kirby Offshore Marine West safety composite

Kirby Offshore Marine West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Kirby Offshore Marine West held a steady TCR band

Kirby Offshore Marine West's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.5 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=7.0 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488330 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Foss Maritime Compan…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~190 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foss Maritime Company LLC - SoCal (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kirby Offshore Marine West in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Kirby Offshore Marine West averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the Tugboat services, harbor operation BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Kirby Offshore Marine West TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=7 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=2.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Kirby Offshore Marine West falls in its industry

69 Tugboat services, harbor opera establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Tugboat services, harbor opera employers in Texas.

Kirby Offshore Marine West (190 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 1.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kirby Offshore Marine West
Kirby Offshore Marine West (190 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Kirby Offshore Marine West has more employees than the Tugboat services, harbor operation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 2.4 1.8 1 7 0
2020 3.4 3.4 6 0 0
2019 7.0 7.0 15 0 0
2018 2.2 1.8 10 0 0
2017 2.5 2.5 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488330 · TX · Houston

69 Tugboat services, harbor operation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Foss Maritime Company LLC - SoCal 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foss - SoCal 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WESTOIL MARINE SERVICES, INC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clinton Landside 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Natural Prairie Dairy Farms, LLC 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE BKB 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capp Electric 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hargrave Power, Inc 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Hearth & Home Technologies 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR D'Amico and Sons- Golden Valley 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Northlake IL 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR JX Truck Center Elmhurst 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Planning & Development Services 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE TC Transcontinental Capri 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE ATE172 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops Market #115 190 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.